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IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Prohibition national convention,
.Pittsburg, May 26.
Republican national convention, St.
Louis, June 10.
Democratic national convention, Chi
cago, July 7.
Populist national convention, St.
Louis, July 22.
Republican e'.ate convention to send
delegates to national convention,
Omaha, April 15.
Hard money democrats will meet in
convention at Lincoln April 29.
Republican district convention for
election of national delegares. Broken
Bow April 13; for the nomination of a
congressman, North Platte August 19.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING.
The Holt county republican central
committee is hereby called to meet in
O’Neill on Saturday, March 21, 1896, at
2 o’clock r. m., in* the office of S. J.
AVeekes, for the purpose of fixing a
date for the county convention and for
the transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the meeting.
S. J. Wbkkes, Chairman.
Clyde Kino, Secretary.
Oenebal Manderson is not gain
ing strength, he is just developing
the strength he always had.
Since Doc Mathews lias run
amnek of Powell Clayton he gives
np all hope of seeming the Little
Rock land office.
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The candidacy of Mr. McNish
will make great inroads on Brooks’
strength in this section. Many peo
ple who in any other event would bo
for Brooks are whooping it up for
McNish.
The Chadron Signal Bays Mike
Harrington, of O’Neill, would be a
good man for the populists of this
district to nominate for congress
man. Gee-whiz! Wouldn’t The
, Frontier like to see Harrington
nominated.
The Sun is chuckling over Ihe
fight it imagines Holt county repub
licans will engage in over the presi
dential bone, when the convention
meets. The Frontier does not be
lieve there will be any fight, but if
there should be a tilt it will be a
good natured one. „
The congressional committee met
at Kearney last week and set April
13 as the date for the first conven
tion, and Broken Bow as the place
for holding the same. The second
convention, for nominating a con
gressional candidate, will be held at
North Platte, August 19.
The remarks of the Ainsworth
Star-Journal anent the candidacy of
General Manderson, reflected any
thing but credit on their author.
This question, like every other, has
two extremes, and the editor who
oan hold his balance on a happy
medium is a lucky fellow.
The hard money democrats will
meet in convention at Lincoln on
April 29. Representation is based
on the vote cast for T. J. Mahoney
for supreme judge. The proposi
tion made by the silver wing of the
party to Bettle the question of rep
reeentation at Chicago at a primary
election was ignored altogether.
Your uncle Tobias will not break a
pair of openers to draw to a bob
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la view of the fact that typhoid
fever has been much in evidence in
O’Neill this winter there is a sus
picion lurking in the minds of a
great many people that the city
water is not handled as carefully as
it should be. It would do no harm
to flush the mains and scrub out the
standpipe. The wells might also be
inspected. The top of the stand
pipe is wide open and there is no
telling how many birds of the air
have met death on the calm and
placid bosom of its waters and sank
only to rise again in the form of ba
c:Ua in a draught swallowed to
sa'-ate the thirst of some over
heated anatomy. And then some of
the mains in the outlying districts
have not been flushed for a long
time and there may bo moss and
snakes and frogs and other creeping
things living there in ease and
luxury. The vfater may be all
right, but a day spent in investigat
ing would be good as a preventive ii
for nothing else.
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SOMEWHAT CZARISH.
On March 15 Senator Thurston at
Washington addressed the following
letter to John C. Whorton, of Omaha,
and says it is his ultimatum:
Dear Sir: I have at all times depre
cated any possibility of a needless and
useless fight in the republican party of
Nebraska. The manner in which the
contest was precipitated left me and the
friends of McKinley no possible oppor
tunity to do anything else than make a
square contest for delegates. It was
known to the Burlington people and to
Manderson’s friends that I had already
been announced through the public
press as candidate for delegate from the
Omaha district, and even before the
state committee meeting at Lincoln they
were at work in Omaha trying to defeat
me. I propose the following:
First—That all uuitc in Douglas
county to instruct the delegates to the
district convention to support me and
such other person as the convention may
agree upon as the two district delegates.
Hecond— That John L. Webster and
Peter Jansen, with some person from
Lincoln and another from that part of
the state west of Douglas county and
north of the Piatto river, be selected as
delegales-at-large, and thnt resolutions
substantially as follows be adopted in
state convention) and in all district
conventions:
Resolved, That the republicans of
Nebrnska favor the nomination of
William McKinley for president.
Resolved, That they hope all dele
gates from Nebraska to the national
convention will make every honorable
effort to sccute his nomination.
Resolved, That they hold in high
esteem Charles F. Manderson, and it is
their wish that the delegates to the
national convention should avail them
selves of any favorable opportunity that
may arise in the national convention to
urge his nomination for president.
Resolved, That the delegates to the
national convention should vote for
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ballots when in their Judgment such
votes so cast will not in an/wise tend to
defeat the nomination of William Mc
Kinley or lessen his chances for
nomination.
If this is done myself and friends, and
I believe all good friends of McKinley,
will loyally and in good faith carry out
the understanding both in Nebraska and
at the national convention.
JonN M. Thurston.
This remarkable document fairly
takes away our breath. The pre
sumption of Mr, Thurston is very
great indeed, and we are a trifle im
patient to see how the republicans
of the state of Nebraska will take to
this dictatorship established without
leave or license.
Does Mr. Thurston imagine that
he constitutes so great a part of the
republican party of the state that
he can issue an ultimatum and dic
tate the terms upon which men
may go to the national convention?
Or that he dare presume to say who
may be elected as such delegates ?
The Frontier wants to be count
ed as everlastingly against any such
exhibitions of bossism. There is no
excuse for it and Mr. Thurston is
liable to find to his own confusion
that the republicans of this state are
not of the character that will permit
themselves to be strung like a school
of suckers.
It may be possible, owing to the
peculiarities of the contest, that the
senator can win in the present in
stance, but it looks to us as though
he has thrown a boomerang.
We are, as an advocate of Gen
eral Manderson’s candidacy, most
emphatically opposed to the terms
proposed in this ultimatum. We
would suggest, instead, a resolution
something like this:
Resolved, That the republicans of
Nebraska favor the nomination of Char
les F. Manderson for president.
Resolved, That they hope ali delegates
from Nebraska to the national conven
tion will make every honorable effort to
secure bis nomination.
Resolved, That as second choice we
favor the nomination of William Mc
Kinley, and our delegates are requested
to cast their votes for him whenever in
their opinion such action will result in
his nomination.
If these resolutions are not satis
factory to the Thurston forces we
would suggest the following:
Resolved, That the republican party
has no further use for its individual
members, therefore we favor turning
them over collectively to John M.
Thurston, to be used by him as a unit
as be may see fit; that he owu them in
fee-simple forever. Re it further
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
convention that he knows more thau the
rest of the members of the party in tliii
state, therefore all good republicans will
refrain .from any manner of protest 01
objection. It is further
Resolved, That all men who do noi
acquiesce in these resolutions are B. <S
M. hirelings and jumping dervishes anc
entitled to no respect under the new or
der of things.
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UPPER-CUTS.
General debility is now in supreme
control of the democratic party, and
general defeat is awaiting it.
Wanted—A Moses, experienced
in leading disorganized forces.
Apply to the democratic party.
The democrats might secure a
candidate by offering a good-sized
purse for the right sort of a man.
Congress has carried Mr. Cleve
land to the Cuba trough, but
whether it can make him drink is
yet to be decided.
Spanish students may yell “death
to the yankees” until they are out of
breath, but the Spanish government
will never have any occasion to set
up a yankee burying ground.
Mr. Cleveland has been so busy
disciplining members of his cabinet
that ho hasn’t written that letter de
clining to allow the use of his name
before the Chicago convention.
Consistency is forgotten by the
church people and peace advocates
who want the United States to make
an armed demonstration against
Turkey, in behalf of the Armenians.
Nobody has reported that any of
the Italian residents of the United
States have volunteered to go to
Abbysinia to help Italy try to ro
move the disgrace of the crushing
defeat administered to her army by
the natives.
The certainty of republican suc
cess at the polls this year, while for
tunate for the party and the country,
may not be so for some of the
would-be candidates. The man who
Inana fltn rnannnf nf nn
efforts to gain supporters, may be
sure that he will also lose the nomi
nation.
Senator Sherman displayed com
mon sense when he said of the re
cent adverse criticism of his Cuban
speech by the Spanish minister at
Washington: “I do not care to en
gage in a controversy with Mr. De
Lome, whom I know, and whom I
esteem as a gentleman. He is here
to represent the Spanish government
and he is entitled to the privilege of
making the best showing for that
government in its present unfortu
nate situation of which he is
capable.”
WHAT THE BOYS SAY.
The country press of Nebraska is
a buzzsaw that over-reaching poli
ticians fool with to their hurt.—
Hebron Republican.
The two men most mentioned for
delegates at large to the national re
publican convention are Peter Jan
sen, of Fairbury, and L. D. Rich
ards, of Fremont. John L. Web
ster, of Omaha, is also said to be a
candidate for the honor.—Sioux
County Journal.
vui. nun uun.iuiu, ui w nwiii, is n
candidate for distiict delegate to the
republican national convention.
Any good man from the east part of
the district is all right, but the two
aspirants from the northwest should
be careful that the contest does not
result in the defeat of both.—Sioux
County Journal.
Manderson or McKinley, which?
This seems to be the important
question in Nebraska just now.
Most Nebraska republicans think
McKinley will be the next president
but they also desire to honor Gen
eral Mauderson by giving him the
vote of his home state delegation.—
Emerson Enterprise.
There is certain to be a red-hot
fight in Omaha between the friends
of Thurston and Manderson to con
trol the delegates from that congres
sional * district to St. Louis. Mc
Kinley wants Thurston to come as
one of the 'delegates and the other
one will be either Osborne, of Blair,
or Whitmore, of Valley, most likely
the latter, in case the Thurston
forces route the Manderson forces.
—Fremont Tribune.
In order that we may not be mis
understood ns to what we think of
the candidacy of M. A. Daugherty
for delegate to the St. Louis con
vention, we repeat that no one but a
true blue republican should be
elected, and as Mr. Daugherty sup
ported William Neville, a pop, for
district judge instead of H. M.
Grimes, a true blue republican, he
does . not come under the head of
loyal republicans and should not be
chosen.—North Platte Tribune.
O’NEILLBUSINESS DIRECTORY
J)It. J. P. GII.I.1GAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in Holt County bank building.
All work cash in advance. Night work
positively refused.
O’NEILL, - . NEB.
R
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
O’NEILL, NEB.
JJARXEY STEWART,
PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Address, Page, Neb.
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LAWYER,
Office in the Judge Roberts building, north
of 0. O. Suvder’s lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB.
It. BUTLER,
ATTORNEY. AT-LA W.
Agent for Union Trust Go’s land in Holt
county.
Will practice In all the oourtB. Speolal at
tention given to foreclosures and collections
oral m sin cum suss
Stage leaves O’Neill at 8:39 A. M„ arriving at
Spencer at 4 p. m.; at Butte. 5:30 p. m.
8. D. Uallentine, Prop.
Checker © Barn,
B. A. DeYARMAN, Manager.
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Good, careful drivers when
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Riding and walking cultivators, harrows, ^
Glidden wire, stoves, oils, cuttlery, tinware.
ELKHORN valley
PLOW FACTORY.
O'NEILL, NEB.
EMIL SNIGGS, Prop.
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Wagon and Carriage woodwork carried on in connection.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Also dealer in
Farm Implements. Handles the Scandi implements and
the Plano Rakes, Mowers and Binders. Parties wishing
anything in this line call and see me.
G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL, V-Pres.
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier.
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